The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday visited the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to seek his understanding over the choice of Mr Peter Obi as his running mate.

On the entourage of Atiku were the Director General of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, who is also the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus; and the National Organising Secretary of the party, Col. Austin Akobundu (retd.).

It was learnt that the visit was meant to appease Ekweremadu, who had hoped that he would be the natural choice for the position.

It was gathered that the visitors asked for Ekweremadu’s support and explained to him that Obi was picked in the interest of the zone in particular and the nation in general.

A source said, “He was told that Obi does not have any corruption case against him and that he does not belong to any faction of the party.

“He was also told that Obi’s emergence has further raised the acceptability level of the PDP across the country.”

Meanwhile, the party has scheduled its National Executive Committee meeting for Thursday in Abuja.

Our correspondent gathered that the meeting would approve the full composition of the council and also vet its budget for the campaigns.

Secondus confirmed the inauguration of the campaign council to our correspondent on the telephone.

“Yes, we are meeting on Thursday and the campaign will be inaugurated same day,” he said.

https://all-gists..com/2018/11/2019-election-atiku-visits-ekweremadu-explains-choice-of-obi.html

if the Igbo fail to come together to achieve common goal......... No Aso Rock for them.

Why the need to always explain or convince the SE'ers on the choice of Obi? It all makes Obi seem like someone who's a persona non grata or so. Haba

Obi does not have any corruption case against him and that he does not belong to any faction of the party.

He's an ethnic jingoist

Well..me l see Nottin wrong in Obi as the Vp.but Atiku didn't Have the prescription of medicine to cure Nigerians from their illness..Buhari us beta ..

This man is definitely taking positive strides to Aso Rock Villa

Why explain na

Ok

Hehehehe

This Ekweremadu self dey see himself somehow. Oga relax your muscle.

Atiku self get time

Are they still on this obi issue...


They better support him.

He's the closest they've had to Aso rock since 1999..

No matter what happens , if either Tinubu, osibanjo or fashola shows interest after Buhari complete his term, I'll vote them...you know why?? They are my kinsmen.

Igbo people should learn how to play politics in an entity like Nigeria.

Ekweremadu should park well joor. Na only You waka come?

Sai Baba till 2023

Somebody should just rescue this country from the disaster we brought upon ourselves 3years ago

Ok. All the best to them.

Lagos is a no man's land.
Peter Obi.
Nigige joined ACN, an Awolowo party.
Peter Obi

We are waiting for PDP in the SW.

Atiku the loser...

Ok, let me get this straight, so Atiku, a party deserter, came back to win PDP presidential nomination and what does he do, he picks a running mate from another party that is a competitor to PDP. What happened to PDP loyalists? And Atiku thinks they will just be happy about it. Lol, ok, just wait till the elections, PDP loyalists will be the ones who will sabotage Atiku by themselves. But it’s none of my business *sipping my tea*

Tuale Baba

Strategically positioning himself

TheGreenLand:
Atiku the loser...

This is spamming and hatred speech.

Se your oga Buhari no get project to show for campaign Ni?

sharp

Why explaining to him You can win with or without him, except his ward he doesn’t have any political value in Enugu�� Igbos are their own problems

faaz24:
[s]ATIKU’S LIES( PART 1)
Copied.

The Claim:

ATIKU CLAIMS HE RAN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY AS VICE PRESIDENT UNDER PRESIDENT OBASANJO.

The TRUTH :

2/ Obasanjo did not have an Economic Team until Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became Minister of Finance in 2003.
3/ In her book, Reforming the Unreformable, 2012, she writes (page : “I flew to Nigeria in May 2003 to discuss the scope of my job and to get President Obasanjo’s agreement on the formation of a Presidential Economic Team.
4/ The President readily agreed to the team, noting that I would lead it and he would preside over it as Chair.” On Page 151, she lists the members of the Presidential Economic Team (the original 13 members and the 9 who joined later).
5/ She is listed as “Chair”, Dr Bright Okogu is “Executive Secretary”. Vice President Atiku Abubakar is not on the list. He was neither the Head nor a member of the Economic Team. The facts are available for all to see.
6/ Virtually all of what you might consider the major economic achievements of the OBJ administration – EFCC, Pension Reform, Power Sector Reform & the NIPP, Debt Relief –happened in the administration’s 2nd Term, during which Atiku had no real say in the running of the economy.
7/ By then Obasanjo had seen the true nature of Atiku – disloyal, corrupt and self-serving – and had begun the process of side-lining him. Without Atiku’s strangling hold on the treasury, the economy actually performed better.
8/ Atiku’s biggest role in the Obasanjo 1st Term was as Chairman of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP), which set the agenda and made the decisions regarding privatising state-owned companies (BPE’s role was to implement these decisions).
9/ Atiku’s biggest legacy from that period (the Obasanjo 1st Term) is selling state-owned companies to himself and his friends, many of them serving as fronts for him.
10/ One of the best-known examples is African Petroleum, which he sold to Peter Okocha’s little-known Sadiq Petroleum (Okocha is a staunch Catholic who purportedly ran a company known as 'Sadiq' Petroleum - go figure!).
11/ Within a few years the AP deal had run into trouble, unsurprisingly. The scandals involving Atiku and PDTF/Williams J. Jefferson/NDTV/iGate also happened during the Obasanjo 1st Term…
12/ ...towards the end, to be precise – when Atiku was desperate about amassing funds to challenge Obasanjo to the PDP presidential ticket (more on that penchant for disloyalty later).
13/ Throughout his tenure as Vice President, Atiku’s greatest talent and legacy lay in pursuing corrupt and self-serving deals like these.
14/ The US Senate Report that indicts him notes that between 2000 and 2008 he laundered $40m in stolen funds through US banks, using one of his wives as a front.
15/ The Takeaway:

So, remember, every time he says ‘ATIKU MEANS JOBS’, what he really means is ‘ATIKU MEANS JOBS-FOR-THE-BOYS.’

[Watch out for PART 2 of ATIKU'S LIES[/s]]

My friend shut d furck up. There is nothing wrong with favouring people you know during award of favours as long as merit is not relegated to the background. Hypocrites like you will do the same thing if not worse, if you were in Atiku's position as privatization chairman .just get the furck outta here.

Y do Igbo's always finding hard to form a common front

solutionmi:
if the Igbo fail to come together to achieve common goal......... No Aso Rock for them.

With what we have seen in Otuoke and Daura, please tell me how the price of garri would be affected if there is "Aso Rock for them"?

ABEG OGA IKE RELAX

Obi may be an Igbo son but we shall still not vote for his party cos the front runner of the party is a well known treasury robber!

This is pure greed, he was hoping to be the vp while he is d deputy senate president, even for me the choice of obi is very wrong cus he was once a governor, why cant atiku pick a non politician

The ousting of Buhari in 2019 must take precedence over or person greed or ambition if not we have failed , this is something greedy people like Tiubu fail to understand.. Tinubu is the like the proverbial boatman that is helping Hades to cross the lake because Hades promised him gold when they reach the other end ..